Meds wrote:ukcanuck wrote:Meds wrote:
Structuring the deal to allow for currently signed players to receive all the money they have been promised. Fair deal. Kudos to the owners for going this route and being willing to honor their financial contracts.
Seriously ?? kudos for living up to their word? Where I come from you are
expected to be as good as your word...anything less is pathetic
Exactly. And to this point my only problem with what the owners were doing was asking players to give back the money they had negotiated in good faith. They were in a position to simply keep the players locked out, and to date most people were saying that the owners have more money (which they do) and could likely win this in a simple war of attrition (which they could). You can give your word and be a complete douche and go back on it, they were doing that, but then righted their wayward course and are doing what they are supposed to do.
I guess we should never get out of our seats for Schneider when he makes an incredible save.....because he's supposed to do that. We should have thrown him under the bus for that save on Morrison against Chicago last season after he screwed up, turned the puck over, and then dove back in front of the net and stayed with the puck and got an arm up. He was supposed to do that, he wasn't supposed to turn the puck over though.
Your comment lacks any kind of rational basis. I'm starting to see why so many people around here argue with you.....you go off half-cocked.
Half cocked? no fully cocked and I know where it is too, I haven't changed my tune since day one, the owners have not one ounce of my respect precisely because they betray the basic principle that a deal is a deal. Its a basic tenet of the very foundation of the system that allows them the privilege they sit their fat asses on.
big fucking deal they are gonna let the players keep the money they agreed to pay them in the first place...thats a classic case of a "reach around" as I have ever heard.
Whatever- if they can work out a deal it wont be because Bettman is nice guy or the owners suddenly got magnanimous, it'll be because the owners have as much to lose as the players and they finally realise that the worm is turning.
Either that or little Hitler there Gary Bettman is a virtuoso and Fehr, the players, the media, the ticket holders, the fans, you, me and anyone else who ever gave a tinkers fart for hockey are collectively his piano and we've all been played masterfully in his grand designs
